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FluidHTML is a new markup language that greatly expands the application of rich media on the web. Rich Internet Applications are growing rapidly and globally. Yet the most common rich media languages are hard to learn and use and are not search engine indexable.

FHTML, Inc., was founded in March of 2009 to tackle this problem and to significantly simplify and empower development of rich media websites, content and applications for the web. FluidHtml, The Company’s product, is a new markup language that dynamically generates Flash content. Structured like HTML, FluidHtml allows any web developer to dynamically generate Rich Media sites and applications and is compatible with all major browsers. FluidHtml solves the Flash search problem by exposing the markup text to search engines. Now web publishers can combine the human appeal of rich media with all the business benefits of the web.

FluidHtml has several additional important benefits. It runs in Flash, which is ubiquitous and which is consistent across all browsers. FluidHtml integrates seamlessly with server-side web technologies such as Java, .NET and PHP. And it includes a liquid layout engine with significantly more flexibility than CSS. FluidHtml markup is interpreted client-side using FHTML rendering engine. FHTML markup language is easily combined with HTML page and render on Flash based FHTML rendering engine.

Benefits of FluidHTML

The use of rich media, interactive web applications, and web animations are growing dramatically, and consumer expectations of their web experience with your company are rising as a result. Historically, committing to rich website development meant using Flash, but this has significant problems for CIOs that FluidHtml solves. The main ones are these:

Learning curve for HTML web developer is very lowFluidHtml is a markup language that is rendered in Flash dynamically with HTML-equivalent syntax. So, if we know HTML then we know FluidHtml. FluidHtml puts the power of Flash into the hands of your existing web developers because it follows HTML paradigms can easily be learned in a few weeks. By using our additional tags and properties, we can make applications, widgets and websites and we can mix FluidHtml and HTML on the same web page.

CSS3 Style Sheet SupportSupport for stylesheets in Flash is extremely limited. Typically, all style changes have to be done in ActionScript and cannot be shared with the styles on our website. FluidHtml has comprehensive stylesheet support, so now our dynamically-generated Flash applications can be styled and restyled easily. In version 2.0 of FluidHtml, our stylesheets are CSS3 compatible. So, the styles we use for HTML pages can also be used in FluidHtml to create Flash animations and layouts.

Liquid Layout and Data BindingFluidHtml supports liquid layout. This means objects can be positioned and resized relative to each other in various ways, rather than just in absolute position. Your application can easily adapt to different screens like desktop or mobile. And also support extensive Data Binding feature for components.

Developer friendly development approachNo one today would code a large website in Flash because it was never built for this purpose. Flash is compiled, so each page of your site is essentially a compiled application. This isn’t true of HTML which can be dynamically generated on the server. Since FluidHtml is just markup on the page, it works like HTML. With FluidHtml you can generate Flash pages dynamically just as you do HTML.

Inherently Search Engine CompatibleFlash has a difficult time with SEO. Because Flash is compiled, the search engines can’t index these binary objects. Adobe is working on making this better, but there is a natural limit to what can be done. However, FluidHtml is just markup, so it can be indexed by the search engines just like HTML. This means you can develop in FluidHtml and get all the benefits of Flash without sacrificing search engine indexability.

The upshot of all this is that with FluidHtml, your enterprise can enjoy all of the benefits of rich web deployment while dramatically reducing the total cost of development and maintenance over conventional rich media tools like Flash and Flex. And while Html5 is promising, it isn’t ready. And even when it is ready, it won’t necessarily be the right solution for multiple categories of applications

Technical specification

Programming Language: Tag based markup language FHTML+HTML. For interactivity we can use javascript and actionscript that is interpreted in Flash based FHTML interpreter. Styling: For styling CSS2.0 and CSS3.0 (in FluidHTML v2.0) Runtime: Flash Player 10 and above

FluidHTML Technical and Commercial Advantage

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Advantage Parameter

FHTML Advantages over HTML/FLASH

1

Technical

Easy to create rich media websites, content and applications (RIAs, for short). Everyone that can code HTML should be able to build RIAs.

2

Technical

Search engine optimization is available in FHTML.

3

Technical

FHTML code does not need to be compiled like Flex, Silverlight and Flash.

4

Technical

Learning curve for HTML developers is quick and easy.

5

Technical

Text/colors/layout cans easily changes without compilation.

6

Technical

FHTML content also renders on Apple product through HTML5 with inbuilt fallback mechanism after device and environment detection.

7

Commercial

Reduces total cost of ownership for a business i.e. not require purchasing Flash IDE license.